The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

How to Argue With a Feminist

Posted on | May 10, 2018 | 1 Comment

 

Rule One: Never argue with a feminist.

This is the only rule you need. There is no point trying to persuade a feminist that she’s wrong. If she were intellectually honest (and thus capable of admitting error) she would not be a feminist.

Because feminists never argue in good faith, nothing is to be gained by engaging in a back-and-forth discussion with them. What must be done instead is to call attention to their errors and lies, so that honest and intelligent people can see for themselves what’s wrong with feminism.

Yesterday, I called attention to Robyn Pennacchia, associate publisher of Wonkette, whose views on “toxic masculinity” struck me as both unusually offensive and easily refuted. The commenters had a field day picking apart Ms. Pennacchia’s errors, although none of them aimed at the point that seemed most obvious to me: The subject of Ms. Pennacchia’s rant against “toxic masculinity” was a March school shooting in Maryland in which the 17-year-old gunman murdered his 16-year-old ex-girlfriend, Jaelynn Willey, and then killed himself.

School shooter Austin Wyatt (left); his victim Jaelynn Willey (right).

By basing her anti-male arguments on this incident, Ms. Pennacchia was engaged in the Atrocity Narrative method of propaganda: Making negative generalizations on the basis of extreme examples.

In 2016, according to the FBI, there were 15,070 homicides in the United States; 11,821 of the victims (78%) were male. To put it another way, males were 3.7 times more like than females to die by homicide. Furthermore, 52.3% of homicide victims were black and nearly all of these black victims were killed by black perpetrators — black-on-black violence accounts for more than half of all U.S. homicides.

The murder of Jaelynn Willey was statistically anomalous. Females account for slightly more than 1-in-5 homicide victims and only 12.6% of 2016 homicide victims (about 1-in-8) were white females.

By making an anomalous incident the basis of her attack on “male privilege,” “male entitlement” and “toxic masculinity,” Ms. Pennacchia was using the same sort of hate propaganda tactics by which Nazis demonized and scapegoated Jews. It is a gross misrepresentation to imply that law-abiding men are somehow responsible — simply by their membership in the category “male” — for a violent crime. Feminists seem incapable of understanding what’s wrong with this dishonest method of argument, and apparently they can’t see why men find it insulting to be falsely implicated as responsible for such atrocities.

So, typically, what happens is this: A feminist makes arguments that amount to a categorical slander of men. Naturally, men feel insulted by these arguments, but do not engage in a rational analysis of the feminist’s rhetoric. Instead, men become angry, and respond to the feminist insults with epithets and slurs, or with amateurish efforts at a rebuttal. The feminist then responds: “See? I told you so — men are awful.”

 

That’s why I say, never argue with a feminist — do not allow yourself to be baited into an emotional response that will only serve as fodder for her next argument about how awful men are. (They have only this one predictable theme, you see.) A man cannot win an argument with a feminist by acting in ways that tend to validate her worldview.

One typical mistake of the amateur anti-feminist is the Equality Error: “Well, yes, men do this particular awful thing, but what about this terrible thing that women do?” Or: “Yes, women suffer from this terrible problem, but what about this typically male problem?”

The error here is in assuming that the feminist actually cares about “equality” and that the key is to appeal to her sense of fairness.

Feminists are essentially sociopaths. The feminist’s characteristic traits are selfishness, dishonesty, and cruelty. She lacks the capacity for empathy, she will tell any lie which suits her purpose, and the raison d’être of her career is to inflict the maximum damage on males.

 

Feminism Is a Totalitarian Movement to Destroy Civilization as We Know It. Bad causes attract bad people and, as Friedrich Hayek observed in The Road to Serfdom, “the worst get on top.” The most “successful” feminist writers are invariably the most dishonest feminist writers, and the same principle applies to feminist politicians. Feminists have been at a loss to explain why American voters in 2016 rejected their chosen champion Hillary Clinton, and the frustration of this failure has made them even less rational than they were before Donald Trump got elected.

If stupid men would just shut up and stop making bad arguments, the feminist movement would discredit itself. Merely quote feminists, call attention to their lies and errors, and permit people to judge the case accurately. Most women are not feminists, and men should reject the premise that criticizing feminism (a movement devoted to a destructive radical ideology) is the same as being “anti-woman” or “anti-equality.” What is fundamentally wrong with feminist ideology, after all, is the belief that “equality” is always the solution to any problem women face. Yet despite decades of feminist activism, and indisputable advances toward “equality,” women have problems today that their grandmothers never imagined. How many kids died in school shootings in 1968? It is an error to think of “equality” as the summum bonum, an inherent good so desirable that everything else may be sacrificed to achieve it, and thus to presume that a more equal society will be a better society.

“One dishonest rhetorical trick feminists use is modifying an extreme statement by a phrase like ‘in Western society’ or ‘in our culture,’ as if there were some other society or culture that is violence-free and egalitarian. No, ma’am, there isn’t, but hey, good luck in your search for it.”
— Robert Stacy McCain, Feb. 14, 2017

As I explain in the very first paragraph of my book, the reason many people are confused about feminism is that they think when feminists say “equality” they mean it in the sense of basic fairness. However, a process or system that is fair may yield results that are unequal. For example, on Sept. 23, 2017, the University of Alabama football team defeated Vanderbilt 59-0. A week later, the Crimson Tide beat Ole Miss 66-3. Both games were played according to the rules, as enforced by league-certified referees, and Alabama’s program is governed by the same NCAA regulations that apply to Vanderbilt and Ole Miss. Yet the results of these two games were so lopsidedly unequal that, as a feminist might say, ’Bama oppressed these two opponents. Do these two games mean that Alabama is morally superior to these other schools? Well, Crimson Tide fans would perhaps like to think so, but putting points on the scoreboard in football is not the only possible metric of human value.

What feminists often do is to find some metric — e.g., the number of women in Congress, or the difference between average salaries of men and women in particular career field — and claim that this numerical inequality proves women are victims of oppression. Yet this is an invalid and illogical way of assessing the fairness of processes. There are many possible explanations for why women would not pursue careers in computer science, or not advance as far in those careers as their male peers, without claiming that a pay disparity in high-tech companies reflects sexist discrimination in the computer industry. And why should this particular metric need explaining, rather than some other statistical disparity? Complaints about “inequality” are almost always based on a cherry-picking approach to data that is essentially dishonest, an attempt to prove that someone (e.g., Silicon Valley employers) is treating employees unfairly, simply because members of certain groups are “underrepresented” in the work force. However, numerical inequalities can be found in all sorts of career fields where no one claims that discrimination explains these disparities. Has anyone ever asserted, for example, that the paucity of Korean-American NASCAR drivers reflects an anti-Asian bias in stock-car racing? Or do feminists complain women are “underrepresented” in low-wage jobs in the construction field?

Only because feminism is based on a zero-sum-game mentality do they believe that male success in certain occupations is evidence of discrimination against women, and the feminist “solution” to such statistical inequality involves a scapegoating rhetoric — “male privilege,” “misogyny,” etc. — that demonizes men for their success, a rhetoric quite analogous to the way Nazi propaganda demonized European Jews.

Robyn Pennacchia is a hate-monger who should be ashamed of herself, but if she had any sense of shame, she wouldn’t be a feminist, would she?

And that, my friends, is how you argue with a feminist.



 

 

Category: Sex Trouble

In The Mailbox: 05.09.18

Posted on | May 10, 2018 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 05.09.18

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #250
EBL: Nancy Pelosi Promises If Democrats Win Back The House, She’ll Raise Your Taxes!
Twitchy: Peak TDS – Marina Sirtis Blames “Our Fuehrer” For AirBnB Visit Gone Wrong
Louder With Crowder: Gina Haspel Embarrasses Senator Feinstein With Fact-Check

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: Stephen Kotkin, Stalin – Waiting For Hitler, also, The Intellectual Dark Web
American Thinker: Was Plato A Trump Supporter?
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
BattleSwarm: Trump Withdraws From Iran Deal As Israel Pounds Iranian Positions In Syria
CDR Salamander: GLOCs, SLOCs… ILOCs?
Da Tech Guy: Quoting Some Solid Papal Advice, also, A Reminder To CNN Viewers From POTUS
Don Surber: Newt Says GOP Will Keep The House, also, The Derp State
Dustbury: Reversion To Form
The Geller Report: Afghan Mosque Prayer Leader Blown Up By Own Bomb, also, Al Qaeda Leader Joins Democrats In Attack On CIA Nominee
Hogewash: Saturn, Rings & Moons, also, Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
Joe For America: What Do You Remember Most About Gene Wilder?
JustOneMinute: Wednesday Morning
Legal Insurrection: Soros Dumps Big Money Into US DA Races, also, US Envoy Warns German Firms To Start Winding Down Business In Iran “Immediately”
Michelle Malkin: Sombreros, Qipaos, And Catholic Cosplay, Oh My!
Power Line: A Day With Candace Owens, also, Did John Kerry Violate The Logan Act?
Shark Tank: Corcoran Won’t Run, Poised To Endorse Putnam Over DeSantis
Shot In The Dark: The Little Admiral
STUMP: Divestment & Activist Investing Follies
The Political Hat: The Venezuelan Horror Continues To horrify
This Ain’t Hell: Virginia AG Files Suit Against Service Dog Provider, also, Major Donald Carr Comes Home
Victory Girls: Pelosi, The WaPo, And Tax Cuts
Weasel Zippers: Another California City Joins Opposition To State Sanctuary Law, also, CBO – April Best Month In History For U.S. Budget
Megan McArdle: I Went Back To The Man That Hit Me. Why?
Mark Steyn: Friendly Neighborhood Schneiderman

Featured Digital Deals
Amazon Warehouse Deals

Category: Linkagery

Errors of Logic and Rhetoric

Posted on | May 9, 2018 | 1 Comment

 

Robyn Pennacchia condemns “male privilege”:

Women are also rejected. Women also spend their teen years pining after dreamy boys who will never love them back. You don’t see us going around murdering people over it. You don’t see us setting up internet communities for the purpose of talking about how evil and shallow men are for not taking us to pound town. Women don’t go around killing men who don’t like them, because if you’re a woman in this society, a boy not liking you is the least of your problems. It is nowhere near the shittiest thing you’re going to be expected to “just deal with” in your life — one of those things being the fact that we are expected to “just deal with” how men are sometimes going to murder a bunch of people because they felt entitled to romantic attention from women. We are expected to “deal with” that, while never bringing up the terms “male privilege” or “male entitlement” or “toxic masculinity” and why those things so often lead to mass murder, on account of how that might really hurt the feelings of the men who have been gracious enough to not go on killing sprees. . . .

You can read the whole thing. Let me ask the commenters to discuss the flaws in Ms. Pennacchia’s logic and rhetoric. While I could do this at length — her errors are obvious to me — there are other things I’d like to accomplish today, and I get tired of explaining what’s wrong with the feminist rhetoric of “equality.” So have at it, readers, and please remember to check your spelling and grammar. No point bothering to “check your privilege,” feminists hate you no matter what you say or do.

 

Category: Sex Trouble

In The Mailbox: 05.08.18

Posted on | May 8, 2018 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 05.08.18

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
First Street Journal: Another Democrat Bites The Dust
EBL: Teach Democrats Not To Hit Women
Twitchy: Iranian President Rouhani Confirms The Iran Deal Was A Sham
Louder With Crowder: NHS Recommends Amputation Instead Of Treatment For Girl’s Leg, also, Mike Rowe Challenges Progressive To Defend His Agenda

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Gym As Metaphor – You Never Arrive, also, The N***a Word
American Power: NRA Darling Sensation “Alpha Addy”
American Thinker: Why The Media Are Mum About Comedy Central’s 2011 Trump Roast
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Doubling Down On Stupid News
BattleSwarm: Roundup Of 2018 NRA Show Notes
BLACKFIVE: Someone You Should Know – Five Men Earned The Medal Of Honor On May 8
Bring The HEAT: Retired Master Chief Britt Slabinski To Receive Medal Of Honor
CDR Salamander: The Overhead & Support For The Syria Strike
Da Tech Guy: Dirty Windows, also, The #NeverTrump Question That Schneiderman’s Resignation Brings To Mind
Don Surber: How The NRA Hiring LTC North Helps Trump, also, Thanks To Voters, It’s Not Blankenship
Dustbury: The Revolving Door Will Not Be Slowed
The Geller Report: Iran Threatens Brutal Reprisals As US Exits Nuke Deal, also, Iranians Begin “Say No To Islam” Campaign
Hogewash: Yours Truly, Johnny Atsign, also, Team Kimberlin Post Of the Day
Joe For America: Alyssa Milano Attends Anti-Gun Rally Armed To The Teeth
JustOneMinute: Enforcing The Law? Nooooo! also, Low-Carb Diets Reduce Insulin & Sugar Swings?
Legal Insurrection: Trump Announces US Will Withdraw From Iran Nuke Deal, also, Presidential Nemesis Wannabe Schneiderman Resigns NY AG Post After Accusations Of Abusing Women
Power Line: It Couldn’t Happen To A Nicer Guy, also, Arizona Enacts Effective College Free Speech Legislation
Shark Tank: Hillary Pushes For More Campaign Finance Reform
Shot In The Dark: Resilience
STUMP: Memory Monday – First Week Of May 1918, also, Taxing Tuesday – Highly Taxed People Running Away
The Political Hat: California Poised To Impose Direct Foreign Domination On Americans
This Ain’t Hell: Arkansas Vet Begins Hunger Strike, also, LTJG Coppock Pleads Guilty On Fitzgerald Collision
Victory Girls: Schneiderman’s Abuse Victim Told To Shut Up Because Democrats Need Him
Weasel Zippers: WH Reporter April Ryan Claims “Melania Not Culturally American”, also, Soros Drops $1.5 Million In San Diego For Far-Left DA Candidate
Mark Steyn: Happy Birthday To You, also, Sketch Comedy And Sketchier Cases


Featured Digital Deals
Amazon Warehouse Deals – Mother’s Day Gifts

Category: Linkagery

Obama’s Legacy Is Still Kicking

Posted on | May 8, 2018 | 1 Comment

by Smitty

As I stand adjacent the crater
Of “Obama’s legacy”, who’s the debater,
Saying that No-Talent Rodeo Clown
Sought to bring us ought but down?

Call him “idealist”; call him “naive”;
Call him “brilliant”: did he deceive?
Or was he as honest as they get:
Postmodernists against the simple truth bet.

Who say “It is all just so much baloney.
Fake it until you are no longer phony.”
Falsehood is a tactical call,
A lying Lucy teeing a ball.

And Charlie, be he white or Brown,
Simpleton running, bearing down,
Kicks and misses, cratering, then,
Strategically blaming others again.

Category: Barack Obama, Democrats

‘Too Valuable’

Posted on | May 8, 2018 | 1 Comment

Eric Schneiderman (right) poses with other sleazy Democrats.

Another “progressive” Democrat is exposed as a vile scumbag:

New York State attorney general Eric Schneiderman has resigned, just hours after it was reported that he had been accused of violent assaults on women he had dated. These allegations, which include threats that Schneiderman made to stalk and kill the women if they told on him, came as a shock — except to anyone who has followed his career in politics. Schneiderman’s louche ethics have been well known. You didn’t need an “in” at Albany watering holes; just reading the newspapers would have told you plenty.
In 2010, when Schneiderman first ran for statewide office, he was involved in a hit-and-run accident. Then a state senator, he claimed to have been a passenger in his own car when his 22-year-old staffer Rachel Kagan — niece of Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan — smashed into a parked car and drove away, after causing $3,000 worth of damage. A passerby witnessed the crash and wrote down Schneiderman’s license plate. Schneiderman later told the owner of the parked car that he “disciplined the staffer,” and offered to pay for the damage, though his office insisted that it was “outrageous” to call the incident a hit-and-run.
Schneiderman later had a brush with trouble regarding his close relations with prominent Hasidic businessman Moshe Stern, the federal government’s chief informant in a major 2013 corruption case involving former state senate president Malcolm Smith. . . .
In 2014, when Schneiderman ran for reelection, Randy Credico, a comedian and New York City gadfly who perennially runs for local office on the issue of drug legalization, alleged that he had sniffed cocaine with Schneiderman, then a state senator, in the back of a bar. Schneiderman denied it, admitting to having used marijuana and cocaine up until 1998, but Credico insisted that Schneiderman was doing “bumps” of white powder with him and a group of others. Given the reports from women he dated and beat that Schneiderman was a raging alcoholic who would routinely bring a bottle of scotch to bed, Credico’s story sounds more credible.
Plenty of hints existed, then, that Schneiderman’s public image was not the whole story. And there were rumors about his private life, too, as suggested by President Trump’s 2013 tweet, “Weiner is gone, Spitzer is gone—next will be lightweight A.G. Eric Schneiderman. Is he a crook? Wait and see, worse than Spitzer or Weiner.”
But Schneiderman was such an exemplar of a progressive-activist hero — suing Exxon, working in concert with Robert Mueller to obtain pardon-proof convictions against Trump associates, speaking at the Women’s March — that people who probably knew better looked away from evidence of his wrongdoing. Even the closest friends of one of Schneiderman’s victims encouraged her not to speak out, “arguing that Schneiderman was too valuable a politician for the Democrats to lose.”

(Hat-tip: Instapundit on Twitter.)

 

Category: Corruption, Crime, Democrats, Scandal

In The Mailbox: 05.07.18

Posted on | May 7, 2018 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 05.07.18

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Reanimated Brains – What Could Go Wrong?
Twitchy: Kanye Gave Ta-Nehisi Coates A Raging Case Of Verbal Diarrhea & Racism
Louder With Crowder: Alyssa Milano Shares “NoRA” Gun Violence “Bill Of Rights”

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Friday Hawt Chicks & Links – The Late, Late Edition, also, The Likelihood Is That You Are Not Red-Pilled
American Power: Chloe Sevigny On Why She Didn’t Join In #MeToo, also, Political Scientist Ned Lebow Won’t Apologize For Lingerie Joke
American Thinker: Judge Ellis Wants To See Mueller’s Fishing License
Animal Magnetism: Dad (1923-2018)
BattleSwarm: Waco Biker Trials Update – More Dismissals, also, Did Kerry Tell The Palestinians Not To Make Peace?
Bring The HEAT: AGM-69 Short Range Attack Missile
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday, also, STEM And The Education Of A Navy Leader – On Midrats
Da Tech Guy: Bringing Back Second Fleet…And Maybe Some Real Training, also, Will 2018 Be The Year Of Glamor Shots For The Democrats?
Don Surber: Blankenship May Be Up 16, also, Media Lies Are The Real Scandal
Dustbury: Strange Search Engine Queries, also, A Goddess For Our Times
The Geller Report: San Diego Area School Has Mural With Trump’s Head On A Spear, also, Facebook Accused Of Introducing Jihadis To Each Other
Hogewash: Blogsmoke, also, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
Joe For America: “March For Our Rights” Nationwide Rally Led by Legal Immigrant, also, Stacy’s Crazy Cousin John Not Going Out Gracefully
JustOneMinute: Like They Can Help Themselves, also, Resistance Journalism, Kerry The Shadow Secretary, And The Logan Act
Legal Insurrection: McCain Regrets Choosing Palin As Running Mate, also, Retired LTC Oliver North Taking Over As NRA President
Power Line: Mysteries Of The Probe (1) and (2), also, Admiral Cuomo Prepares For War
Shark Tank: Nelson Makes Puerto Rico His Second Home, also, Gubernatorial Candidates Weigh In On D’Souza Controversy
Shot In The Dark: Things That Keep Democrats Up At Night, also, “Great Job, Rahm”
STUMP: Mornings With Meep – A Modest Proposal For Social Security
The Political Hat: Dear Comrade Bernie, The Hunger Games Is Not A How-To Guide
This Ain’t Hell: AP Goes All In For Manning, also, Dan Helmer, Gun Show Loophole Liar
Victory Girls: The Maverick In Winter
Weasel Zippers: Jihadi Work Accident – 11 Killed When Bomb Detonates Prematurely In Mosque, also, Illinois Counties Declare “Sanctuary Status” For Gun Owners
Mark Steyn: Scouts’ Honor, also, The Matter Of Size


Featured Digital Deals
Amazon Warehouse Deals

Category: Linkagery

Notorious Transgender Activist Compares Feminist Critics to Drug Addicts

Posted on | May 7, 2018 | 1 Comment

 

Feminist critics of transgenderism are “dogmatic” and debating them is “pointless,” according to Char Vortryss, a member of a controversial group that will hold a panel Saturday at the San Francisco Public Library.

“Until you come to understand that your dogma is harmful [and] decide to find another way, ‘debate’ is pointless,” Vortryss said in a Twitter thread. “It’s like with an addict. Interventions don’t work. You gotta find your own bottom, decide on your own that you’ve had enough [and] want to change for the better. Until then, all we can do is protect ourselves from the harm you’re trying to cause.”

A male-to-female transgender also known as “Char the Butcher,” Vortryss became notorious for having the slogan “Die Cis Scum” tattooed on his/“her” arm, posing with a baseball bat in a photo that was perceived by many as a threat to feminist critics of transgenderism.

 

“Cis” is the antonym of “trans.” Disparaging biological women as “cis scum” was part of a long-running conflict between transgender activists and critics they call “TERFs” (trans-exclusive radical feminists).

Last month, the San Francisco Public Library announced that it had made changes to an exhibit by Vortryss’s group, the Degenderettes, after complaints from patrons about “artwork that could be interpreted as promoting violence.” Among the exhibits in the Degenderettes display was a blood-stained T-shirt with the slogan, “I punch TERFs.”

The Degenderettes library exhibit (above) included a T-shirt by Mya Byrne (below).

 

The feminist blog Gender Trender pointed out that the shirt displayed in the library exhibit had been worn at the San Francisco Pride Parade by Degenderettes member, 40-year-old “Mya Byrne.” A folk singer formerly known as Jeremiah Birnbaum, Byrne was criticized in 2015 for “misogyny” after publishing a poem about the adolescent experience of masturbating while wearing his/“her” sister’s underwear.

Warning against “a crazy-ass woman-hating subculture of straight men who identify as transwomen and . . . call themselves TransDykes,” the Gender Trender blog condemned Byrne as part of a movement of “deranged” heterosexual men who advocate “violence against women.”

 

Char Vortryss is the transgender alias of 34-year-old Clinton James Crawford, who in February 2017 was one of three people granted petitions by a San Francisco judge “to change their gender to ‘non-binary’ — meaning they are legally neither male nor female” according to California courts. Vortryss’s spouse Xin Farrish is also “non-binary.” Vortryss concluded his/“her” Twitter thread by announcing a panel the Degenderettes will host Saturday at the San Francisco library.

 

Vortryss linked a Facebook announcement that included this:

Furthermore, the exhibition of art created by the Degenderettes at the Hormel Center has been subject to a misinformation campaign run by trans-exclusionary radical feminists (TERFs) and far-right extremists. Pieces of the exhibit have been decontextualized and misrepresented in order to draw negative attention to both the Degenderettes and the San Francisco Public Library. The talk-back will feature moderation and steps will be taken to ensure the safety of attendees, but it is important for us to note that there may be greater attention on the event due to the above.

 

Transgender activists have done more that merely threaten their feminist critics with violence. Last year, 60-year-old Maria Maria MacLachlan was attacked by a transgender activist in London’s Hyde Park, an incident that made international headlines. More recently, British police have investigated “hate speech” accusations against feminists, including long-time lesbian activist Linda Bellos, who was “interviewed under caution” last month for remarks she made at a November event.



 

RECENTLY:

 

Category: Sex Trouble, The Transgender Cult
« go back — keep looking »

    About

    This is an area on your website where you can add text. This will serve as an informative location on your website, where you can talk about your site.

    Subscribe to our feed

    Search

    Admin